Two women were killed in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, the Maoists accused them of being police chiefs.
On Saturday night, 40-year-old Yalam Shukra of Lodedh Rural Municipality of Madded police station area of Bijapur was kidnapped. A small team of Maoists And took him three kilometers away to a hill in the forest and cut his throat. His body was found on Sunday morning.
The Mudded area committee of the Maoists put a letter written in red ink on his body and claimed that he was a police informer (Khabar) and he was sentenced to death by the People’s Court on Friday.
Maoists have claimed He informed About their agitation, which led Telangana’s Greyhound Army to launch an anti-Naxal operation along the Bijapur-Telangana border, in which seven Maoists were killed on December 1.
The previous night, 45-year-old Lakshmi Padam of Timapur Rural Municipality was also killed. Padam was an anganwadi worker and lived with her husband and their three children.
It is alleged that a group of Maoists took him out of the house in the presence of his family on Friday night and strangled him to death.
“Her family members, including children, tried to stop the Maoists but were beaten up and pushed away,” a police source said. The Maoists of Mudded Area Committee called him a police informer.
With this, the number of people killed in Maoist-related violence in the district has reached five in a week. At least 64 civilians have been killed in Maoist violence this year in Bastar region, which also includes Bijapur. During the same period, 210 Maoists and 18 security personnel were also killed.